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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:14

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Job3:14

14. [With Kings ] and Counsellors of the Earth, [which built desolate places for themselves: ]

I had then been as happy as the proudest Monarchs, who after all their great Archievments and Enjoyments go down into their Graves, where I also should have been sweetly reposed.

Which to shew their great Wealth and Power, or to leave behind him a glorious name rebuilt ruined Cities, or built new Cities and Palaces, and other Monuments in places where before there was meer solitude and Wasteness.

Marginal references: Ch. 15. 28.

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